FACING CANCER AS A FAMILY

V Care Foundation is a voluntary support group dedicated providing free help, hope, awareness & education to cancer patients & their families through outreach programs & services that improve the quality of their lives.

V-Care has prepared this booklet to help patients & their families understand & deal with cancer &its related conditions. We believe this will help the patient & the family faces the disease together to get in touch with us for any help.

Today early discovery, modern medical Treatments and a fighting spirit enable many people to overcome cancer. Yet, whenever one member of the family is diagnosed with cancer, the shock of the news shakes the equilibrium of the whole family. Remember, “Cancer strike the whole family”.

Facing cancer as a family means, creating a loving and healing environment for the persons who is ill. The family must function as a team, by hoping, sharing and caring for each other, and by communicating in such a way that you can develop a positive strategy and work together smoothly.

A diagnose of cancer demands much growth and resourcefulness on the part of the whole family.

They must decide how they as a family can be best connect so that they can free the patient to muster all of his or her strength to beast the cancer. It is important to remember that it is the patient family who is the greatest ally in the fight against cancer

The diagnosis of cancer is always a shock. One feels helpless & powerless. To be able to summon the resources available to you to combat cancer, one needs to reclaim some measures of control over ones lives. One’s spirit may at times feel shattered but that is natural. However, do remember that attitude is very important for healing. The patient stands a much better chance of recovery, if the approaches are positive.

First step is to find out all you can. Gather as much information as you can about the disease, treatment, and options. Your immediate link is your doctor. Become familiar with your doctor, and do not get intimidated by his degrees or demeanor. Ask your question; clarify your doubts and perceptions. Get literature pertain to your cancer. Get counseling. In Mumbai and pune, vcare, provides free pamphlets, and also offer patients and family counseling these help patient and the families to deal with the social, psychological and piratical aspect of cancer.

Express your feeling!! Patients and family members need to communicate about their feelings to one another because here one is dealing with some extra-ordinarily difficulty circumstances that can generate very intense feeling. A person with cancer could face an array of losses, e.g., it could be a loss of sense of well-being, or a sense of negative body imaging due to the side effects of treatment, or potentially even the loss to life itself. The family may have to face the loss of the usual role in the family, or the federal loss of him or her to death. Thinking of losses such magnitude can cause fear, anger and depression. Trying to suppress these emotions can snap your energies, and damage recovery. Talking about your felling can often help to dissipate them. Remember, one needs all one physical and emotional resources to fight cancer.

Maintain as a normal life as possible. The realization that one is loved is what saves and sustain all, when their world around them is crumbling. Form a cohesive and supportive care giving circle. Lavish extra love.

All family members will need extra outside support. Take advantage of the help offered by extended family, friends or support groups.

Keep mentally and physically fit through proper rest, diet and exercise…one is going to encounter up & down emotions try and concentrate on the positive. Go out, have some fun do things you enjoy and spend time with people you love.

A diagnoses of cancer, gives an opportunity to, reevaluate the important things of life, and discover a deeper

V care information resources:

V care provides helping booklet about cancer their treatments and coping with these include chemotherapy radiation therapy and diet for cancer patients.

At any stage of disease, supportive care is available to relieve the side effects of treatment, and to ease emotional concerns. Further information you can meet with one our volunteers or call out troll free help line-